Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus 1758)
- Dataset
- Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Balaenopteridae
- genus
- Balaenoptera
- species
- Balaenoptera musculus
discussion
Remarks: The Northern Hemisphere stock (except the Indian Ocean stock) is identified under B. m. musculus (Reilly et al. 2008). Conservation status: The South Korean government designated this species a Protected Marine Species in 2007. The North Korean Red Data Book listed this species as ‘ Rare. ’ CITES has protected B. musculus as an Appendix I species, and the IUCN designated this whale as ‘ Endangered’.
distribution
Range: Balaenoptera musculus has rarely been encountered in the East Sea (Fig. 78). Whalers harvested a total of 20 blue whales in the waters of Korea during 1911 to 1944 (Park 1987). There has been no record of this whale in Korean waters since 1944.